Conversation: 678-004
Prev: 678-003 Next: 678-005Start Date: 6-Mar-1972 4:00 PM
End Date: 6-Mar-1972 5:04 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]; Woods, Rose Mary; Brumley, Jayne; Bull, Stephen B.; Ziegler, Ronald L.; Kissinger, Henry A.; Shen, James C. H.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:03:25
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:07:00
NARA Description:
On March 6, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), Rose Mary Woods, Jayne Brumley, Stephen B. Bull, Ronald L. Ziegler, Henry A. Kissinger, and James C. H. Shen met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:00 pm to 5:04 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 678-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 678-4
Date: March 6, 1972
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:04 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell’s statement
-John E. Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Mitchell
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:11 pm.
[Conversation No. 678-4A]
The President’s schedule
-George W. Romney’s schedule
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Mitchell
[End of telephone conversation]
ITT case
-Wallace H. Johnson
-Mitchell
-Charles W. Colson
-Mitchell
-Richard G. Kleindienst
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)
-Johnson
-Coordinator
-Strategy
-Ehrlichman
-Johnson
-Colson
-William H. Rehnquist
-Richard A. Moore
-William L. Safire
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Colson
-Mitchell statement
-Testimony
-Jack N. Anderson
-Kleindienst
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Doctor
-Drew Pearson meeting
-Party
-Mitchell
-Louie B. Nunn
-Jack Gleason
-William E. Timmons and Harry S. Dent
-San Diego
Rose Mary Woods entered at 4:11 pm.
ITT case
-Beard
-1969
-Republican dinner
-Nunn
-John C. Whitaker
-New York
-Ted Rodgers’s secretary
-Doctor
-Memorandum
-Mitchell
-Johnson
-Circumstances
-Nunn
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)
-Mitchell
-Lee R. Nunn
-James E. Bassett
-White House
-Mitchell
-Kleindienst
-Colson
-William R. Merriam
-Role
-Beard
Woods left at 4:12 pm.
The President talked with Mrs. Jayne Brumley between 4:12 pm and 4:13 pm.
[Conversation No. 678-4B]
[See Conversation No. 21-2]
[End of telephone conversation]
ITT case
-Beard
-Woods
-Rodgers
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Mitchell’s statement
-Johnson
-The President’s schedule
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Mitchell’s statement
-Doctor
-Kleindienst
-Nomination
-Withdrawal
-Johnson
-Ehrlichman
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:13 pm.
-Johnson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)
-Mitchell
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:26 pm.
-Public relations
-Problems
-Contribution
-Circumstances
-Confirmation
-Flanigan
-Involvement
-Kleindienst
1972 campaign
-Polls
-White House
-Undecided
-Approval
-Disapproval
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-The President’s view
-Confidence in government
-Approval
-Peace speech, 1970
-George H. Gallup
-January 1971
-Laos
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:13 pm.
Request for Ronald L. Ziegler to come to the Oval Office
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:26 pm.
Polls
-Gallup
Patrick J. Buchanan
John B. Connally
-Meeting with the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)
-Testimony
-Herbert Stein
-George P. Shultz
-PRC trip briefing
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Treasury Department
Ziegler entered at 4:26 pm.
Press briefings
-Gerald L. Warren
-Morning announcements
-Ziegler’s forthcoming afternoon briefings
-Schedule
-Timing
-Wire service story
-Neil H. McElroy
-Media
-Sans Souci
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Radio
-ITT
-Mitchell’s statement
-Questions
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-The PRC trip
-Busing
-Florida primary
-Moratorium
-United Press International [UPI] story
-Constitutional amendment
-Leaks
-Ehrlichman
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Justice Department
-Questions
-Blacks
-Florida primary
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)
-Ehrlichman
-George C. Wallace
-Busing announcement
-Influence
-Timing
-Television
-Newspapers
-Camp David
Kissinger entered at 4:35 pm.
James C.H. Shen
Busing announcement
-Timing
-Florida primary
Haldeman and Ziegler left at 4:36 pm.
PRC
-Message to the President
-Delivery by ambassador
North Vietnam
-Message to the US
-Linkage of Taiwan, Republic of China to Vietnam
-State Department
-Hugh Scott statement
-Kissinger’s view
PRC
-Vietnam
-The President’s message
-Paris contacts
-Schedule of messages to PRC and North Vietnam
-Shen
-Linkage of Taiwan to Vietnam
-State Department
-Scott’s statement
-Peace talks
-Possible PRC message
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)
-Public statement
-Message
-William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming press conference
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Shen
-Photographs
Shen entered at 4:44 pm.
Greetings
Shen’s schedule
-The President’s possible message to Chiang Kai-shek
-Taiwan
-Chou En-lai
Taiwan
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Meeting with Marshall Green
-Kissinger
-Kissinger’s meeting with Shen
-Shen’s meeting with Chiang Kai-shek
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s talks with PRC officials
-Green
-Rogers’s talk with PRC officials
-Kissinger
-The President’s talks with PRC officials
-Chou En-lai
-Allegations of secret deals
-Chou En-lai
-Renunciation of force
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Kissinger’s backgrounder in Shanghai
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Chou En-lai
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Desire for peaceful settlement
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)
-US commitment to Taiwan
-Kissinger’s view
-Message to the Congress transmitting third annual report on US foreign
policy, February 9, 1972 [World Report]
-Democrats in the US
-Vietnam comparison
-Quemoy and Matsu
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-The President’s view
-Isolationism in the US
-Vietnam
-Japan
-Philippines
-Thailand
-Korea
-Taiwan
-Statement by Taiwanese Foreign minister
-US role in a possible PRC-Taiwan settlement
-Comparison to Israeli-Arab situation
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Unilateral declarations
-Taiwan
-Korea
-Japan
-South Vietnam
-Taiwan
-Wording
-“Province” compared to “part”
-The President’s message to Chiang Kai-shek
-(Madame) Chiang Mayling Soong
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-PRC-Taiwan settlement
-Vietnam
-Peace and friendship
Shen’s schedule
-Hawaii
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-The President’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)
The President’s regards
-Taiwanese defense minister
Kissinger and Shen left at 5:04 pm.